In early 2000s I first learnt about the Agenda 21. Then I learnt it was being promoted in Switzerland, Austria and Germany by groups led by symphatizers of Baader-Meinhof gangs. Now silver hair women and mostly bald men in the positions of University teachers, doctors or lawyers... I was shocked reading their leaflets promoting bagless shops (they recommended wrapping goods into newspapers... like in USSR) or limits on electricity usage. In their brochures printed in 1990s there were proposals that the UN would introduce a worldwide global warming tax.

This is a variant on what I said from the first minute after the “fall” of the USSR - I said that the USSR was like stage one of syphilis, where there are observable symptoms, and that the “fall” was like the second stage of syphilis, in which the disease goes underground, and the symptoms disappear. We will wake up one day to find ourselves in the third stage, of delirium and degenerative madness.

Environmentalists have a pathological fear and hatred of economic progress. They are the enemy not only of industrial civilization, individualism, and capitalism, but also of technology, science, human reason, and human life. To an important extent the hatred of man and distrust of reason displayed by the environmental movement are psychological projection of many contemporary intellectuals' self-hatred and distrust of their own minds which have been made much more acute as the result of the visible worldwide collapse of socialism and the fact that they,as the advocates and apologists of socialism, have been responsible for the destruction it has wrought.

As the parties responsible for socialism-for a system which has brought poverty and tyranny to every country upon which it was imposed, from Soviet Russia and the East European nations to Indochina, Ethiopia, Angola, and Cuba-they have certainly been a plague upon the world. And if socialism had in fact represented reason and science, as most intellectuals cannot help but continue to believe, there would be grounds to distrust reason and science. For then, reason and science would have been responsible for scores of millions of murders.